Hossein Amir-Abdollahian

Iran Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian in India on Monday

Iran's foreign minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian will be on a visit to India on Monday, his first to the country since taking over last year. The top Iranian diplomat arrived in Delhi late on Sunday and will hold talks with his counterpart India's external affairs minister Dr S Jaishankar on Monday. The minister then leaves for Sri Lanka on Tuesday. While he took over as the new Iran FM last year, he had held number of conversations with his Indian counterpart Dr S Jaishankar number of times. Both the ministers spoke on 8th of this month on number of issues, including Afghanistan. The Iranian side offered to transfer India's humanitarian aid to Afghanistan including wheat, medicine to the country.

Jan 27, 2022, 00:41 AM IST

Iran to continue military advisory assistance to Syria

Iran has followed a straight and clear policy about the Syrian crisis and fighting terrorism and has never slacken about it, Ansari said in his weekly press briefing.

Dec 15, 2015, 23:33 PM IST

Bashar al-Assad can run for presidency in Syria's future election: Iran

Any qualified person, including Syrian President, is entitled to stand as a candidate, Amir-Abdollahian said.

Nov 20, 2015, 03:53 AM IST